Iran Sees ISIS as ‘Made-in-America’ Problem

The New York Times sought to mock the conspiracy-minded Iranian public for believing ISIS is “created” by the United States in a top article claiming it was the result of Iranian state media propaganda.

Yet considering it from the viewpoint of the average Iranian, it’s not hard to see where that belief came from, with the US loudly backing Syria’s rebels, of which ISIS is by far the largest and most successful faction, while Iran backs ally Bashar Assad’s government.

Even at this point, when the US is directly insinuating itself into a massive war with ISIS, the view from the ground is pretty stark. ISIS is awash in US weapons, provided to “moderate Syrian rebels,” and driving US-made vehicles looted in Mosul, giving them all the outward appearance of an American proxy.

For decades, Iranians have been presented with the United States as a powerful enemy, one which is constantly threatening to attack them. They now find an ISIS army equipped with decidedly made-in-America gear, it’s hard to blame them for jumping to conclusions.

The reality is that the United States foreign policy has played a massive role in the creation of ISIS as the huge problem it has become. It’s blowback from the massive incompetence of that policy, which is an important distinction, but one which probably doesn’t make a huge difference to the people fighting them.

Author: Jason Ditz

5 thoughts on “Iran Sees ISIS as ‘Made-in-America’ Problem”

When it comes to ISIS, no one ever asks about their funding and backers. It is obvious that Saudis and Qataris rulers are funding them to promote sectarian conflicts and diverts attention from themselves. It is also interesting that Necons like the Saudis so much these days they treat them like Israel and no criticism of Saudis is allowed in the main stream media.

Bashir Al Assad government is chosen by the Syria people, the Syrian opposition chosen by USG/EU/Saudis and UAE. These regimes are outsiders, while the Syrian people are living in Syria, these regimes want to replace the choice of Syrian people while only the fraction of Syrian people supporting the " opposition". The entire middle eastern problem, no matter who is in charge of USG, the root of the problems existed or created are from EU/USG, Israel apartheid fascist regime is the creation of these regimes so is the ISIS made in America and John McCain have a photo to prove it. Meanwhile the Swedish king and Swedish Neo fascism government supporting the dictatorial regimes in Saudi Arabia and UAE.

The "blowback" and "incompetence" argument is far from a certain reality here. There are many reports that U.S. intelligence agencies (and Israeli intelligence) have trained forces that became ISIS, that U.S. ally Turkey allowed ISIS stormtroopers free passage to Iraq through Turkey over the summer, that close U.S. ally Saudi Arabia has funded ISIS over the years and that the original "Al Queda in Iraq" (under the bogeyman Al Zarqawi mantle) was a psyops project of the occupation forces. The current ISIS leadership traces its lineage to Al Zarqawi, and Obama mentioned this link as well. A group that unabashedly traces its lineage to the murky Al Zarqawi is revealing its own roots in the U.S. intell world, if only we can stretch our memories back that far..

Of course it's American made… The American people were getting tired of the Al Queda bad guys and were starting to seriously demand that the USG get us out of Iraq/Afghanistan and not go into Syria. So, they needed a new "critical mass existential enemy" to pursue "to the gates of Hell" – or some such idiotic threshold. Behold…ISIS/ISIL.